Disney will rule the box office worldwide in 2022 with $4.9 billion

No surprise: Walt Disney is the #1 studio at the box office, not only worldwide with $4.9 billion, but also domestically with $2 billion and internationally with $2.9 billion. It comes after a first New Year’s weekend saw some Avatar: the way of water surpassed, this picture contributed nearly $1 billion overseas. This is the seventh consecutive year that Disney has been #1 at the global box office from 2016 to 2022.

Disney’s Moola consists of 16 theatrical releases.

I also heard that Universal has committed $3.9 billion worldwide for 2022, with $1.649 billion in the United States and $2.251 billion abroad.

We told you last week for December 31, Disney was looking at just under $2 billion, with $1.93 billion on the US side, the most of any studio. Before Christmas, we also told you that Disney had grossed more than $4 billion worldwide.

Disney only had three theatrical releases in China: Avatar 2, Death on the Nile and Encanto.

The Burbank, California-based studio had four of the top eight films of 2022 in the United States Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder), contributing to an estimated local market share of 27%.

Six Disney Movies at #1 in the US and Canada: Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, Barbarian and Death on the Nile.

Disney also had four of the top eight films in the world Avatar: The Way of Water, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Thor: Love and Thunder.

Disney-produced titles are among the top five global debuts of the pandemic era, including four Marvel Cinematic Universe films (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Thor: Love and Thunder) and Avatar: The Way of Water.

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